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Microsoft has finally relented, and released its core Office applications on the iPad. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint were released earlier today as separate apps, and all three of them are free to download. Even better, Office Mobile for the iPhone and Android phones is now free as well. Of course, Microsoft still wants you to buy into its Office 365 subscription service, but that’s no surprise.

In the most incalculably ironic twist of fate ever devised by the computer gods, the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 is afflicted by a bug that results in a random Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and then a complete reboot. While the iPhone BSOD lacks the mumbo-jumbo of mostly useless information that’s present on the Windows BSOD, the similarities between the iPhone 5S/iOS 7 and Windows BSODs are shocking — even the shade of blue is virtually the same.

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